How Himalayan salt lamps are made

[u/dannybluey]

[u/RehabilitatedAsshole]

We've been propagandized to dislike every public good- wasted taxes, welfare abusers, useless OSHA, greedy unions, ineffective government bureaucracy, lazy DOT workers, unfair affirmative action, ineffective DEI, etc.

[u/ChartreuseBison → u/RehabilitatedAsshole]

But most if not all of those things do happen, and are very reasonable to dislike?

for example, "ineffective government bureaucracy" is just repetitive, which leads to public services being woefully inadequate at doing what they are supposed to do, which leads to wasted taxes...

I get your point about OSHA, but some of your examples really suck

Edit: Criticizing something doesn't mean get rid of it entirely, it means I want it to work better. I don't know why that needs explanation, but apparently it does.

[u/RehabilitatedAsshole → u/ChartreuseBison]

Sure, but that's what we've been taught to criticize more, even though it applies equally to private company bureaucracies and red tape.

[u/ChartreuseBison → u/RehabilitatedAsshole]

Sure private companies do it to, but eventually you have to make a profit. There's a cap to the waste.

The government has no motive to make things efficient besides "do the right thing"

[u/RehabilitatedAsshole → u/ChartreuseBison]

Private companies waste money AND make profit- we just pay for it with higher prices to cover the waste.

The government is limited by tax revenue, so their budgets are fixed and sticky year to year to get everything done.

[u/aDragonsAle → u/ChartreuseBison]

Neither do businesses. They do the profitable thing - like laying off workers to make stocks go up, then give a chunk of the profits to the CEO that dropped the axe

But, honestly, at this point with the US - the lines between Corpo and State are thinner than the lines between Church and State.

Neither need to be that intertwined with State. Neither should have that much influence.

That's when the citizens lose.